JOURNAL OF FINANCE & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Volume 1, Numéro 2, Pages 07-23
2017-12-30

A New Hybrid Expansion Function Based Mutual Information For A Multilayer Neural Networks Optimization

Authors : Kais Ncibi . Djenina Amor . Sadraoui Tarek . Faycel Mili .

Abstract

Function expansion was used to expand initial features based on a non linear transformation. Many known expansion functions are found such the trigonometric, the polynomial, the Legendre polynomial, the power series, the exponential and the logarithmic transformation. This paper present a comparison between different expansion functions based on mutual information and different performance functions. We propose a new expansion process able to improve the correspondent mutual information and the final performance. The process was tested; using different benchmark databases, and shows his ability to improve results of classification problems

Keywords

Function expansion; multilayer perceptron, Classification, mutual information, features selection.